After being appointed in Parliament, the Anti-Corruption Commission (DKSK) announced it will begin its work by investigating the numerous allegations of nepotism in public sector hiring which have surfaced in the past months. More than a dozen high profile SDSM and DUI party officials were revealed to have handed public administration jobs to their close relatives, and even the Commission itself was plagued by such allegations.

DKSK sources say that the Commission will begin with SDSM member of Parliament Mira Stojcevska from Delcevo, who had her husband appointed head of the local forestry police, landed her son in the ELEM public company, while her brother was hired in the REK Bitola power company, also managed by ELEM. Stojcevska gained notoriety for collecting 12.000 EUR in travel expenses from the Parliament in a year, money which would have allowed her to rent 5 apartments in the capital, for encore, was involved in multiple claims for heating subsidies in Delcevo.

The list of alleged cases of nepotism includes the daughter of Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi – also employed at the ELEM company; the mother of SDSM member of Parliament Kostadin Kostadinov who got a public sector job in Strumica; the sister of Culture Minister Asaf Ademi – ELEM again; the wife of Negotino Mayor Toni Delkov – hired in the local elementary school; the son of member of Parliament Goran Misovski – who was given a job at the public insurance regulator; the sister of Economy Minister Kreshnik Bektesi – appointed to the MEPSO company; the sister and father in law of SDSM member of Parliament Aleksandar Kiracovski; the son of SDSM member of Parliament Mileva Georgieva – now a police inspector in Radovis; the wife of former VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Zekir Ramcilovic, who switched sides and joined with SDSM – hired at the Interior Ministry; the wife of another former VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament who now sits with SDSM Emilija Aleksandrova – employed at the scandal plagued Innovation Fund; the niece of Prilep Mayor Ilija Jovanovski – employed in the Prilep town hall…